Every accepted public quote

“Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.”

“I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.”

“I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.”

“When I was around 18, I got kicked out of my parents' house, and I wasn't allowed to take anything with me. I slept on YMCA towels for a whole semester in university before my father found o...”

“It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.”

“I wasn't born in Mexico - I was born in Nicaragua - but I know that, when somebody like Donald Trump says 'Mexicans,' he means all of us. He means anybody who comes from south of the border.”

“When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a hal...”

“The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.”

“That connection that I have with my fans is really special, and every time, when I have moments, when I have free time, the only thing that I think about is what I'm going to post, what I'm...”

“We always said if we were going to target a millennial consumer, then we had to do it in their mother tongue, which is digital.”

“My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn'...”

“A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.”

“We are screaming battle cries against those whose political and personal agendas threaten our lives and sanity.”

“I'm not a role model. I'm a role villain.”

“The reason why 'Black Lives Matter' is a chant is because a lot of people feel, myself included, that sometimes they don't matter.”

“I've performed on 'The Tonight Show' with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, but not at the same time.”

“In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.”

“Nobody wants to be trapped inside that cage me. They don't want to be cut by my elbows, they don't want to get hit by any of my kicks and they don't want their conditioning checked by me.”

“Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly oversha...”

“I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'”

“She is by my side, as my sister, but he is my soul. He is my enemy, my tormentor, my demon. He is my beloved.”

“While researching my ancestry I have unearthed many skeletons. It would seem that I come from a long line of ne'er-do-wells, especially on my mother's side.”

“Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood m...”

“Some comedies, they want you falling on your face and doing silly things.”

“It's always interesting to be playing against some of my best friends and some of my longtime teammates. You get to see them before the game and after the game and it's always nice to catch...”

“Undoubtedly, church fish fries and picnics help build social cohesion. It was at my dad's medium-size evangelical church - my first real exposure to a sustained religious community - that I...”

“I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's har...”

“Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.”

“Obviously I have more in common with Jekyll, but there's something about Hyde.”

“I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.”

“When I was coming up, it was the golden age. It was Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan, and Reese Witherspoon was starting. You really had, 'Who is America's Next Sweetheart?' every couple of years....”

“I have a happy temperament: a bit like 'Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.'”

“I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.”

“Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.”

“Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.”

“I am a communicator; that seems to be my natural place. And I'll always be passionate about the world, because it's so bonkers.”

“Words that add no new information or aren't repeated for emphasis are just padding. A sentence may carry three or five or eight of them, each one as unnoticeable as an extra two ounces on yo...”

“At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.”

“Disunion by force is treason.”

“My wife keeps on telling me my worst fault is that I keep things to myself and appear relaxed. But I am really in a room in my own head and not hearing a thing anyone is saying.”

“It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.”

“I built the most exclusive and decadent high-profile club for powerful men.”

“I agree with yours of the 22d that a professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution. but we cannot always do what is absolutely best. those with whom we act, entertaining...”

“I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with...”

“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.”

“In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to...”

“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”

“Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and w...”